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John 4:38

I sent you to reap what you didn't work for. Others did the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of what they did.”

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

In Context

37So the proverb ‘one sows, another reaps,’ is true.

39Many Samaritans from that town trusted in him because of what the woman said: “He told me everything I ever did.”

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Cross References

Jeremiah 44:4I sent you all my servants the prophets time and again to warn you: “Don't do these offensive things that I hate.”

Matthew 4:23Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, telling the good news of the kingdom, and healing all the diseases and illnesses the people had.

John 1:7He came as a witness to explain about the light so that everyone might believe through him.

Acts 4:4But many who had heard the message believed it, and the total number of believers grew to about five thousand.

Acts 5:14However, many men and women came to believe in the Lord.

Acts 8:4Those who had been scattered spread the word wherever they went.

Matthew Henry on John 4:28-43

Christ at the Well of Samaria. 27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? 28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? 30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. 31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to… Read the whole commentary →

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